Two charged after heroin, guns, cash found in Pike home

The Pike County Drug Task Force has charged two men after finding 172 packets of heroin, several guns and $6,199 in cash at a Delaware Township home last week.

Louis Stellato, 40, and Joseph Stellato, 19, both of Delaware Township, are awaiting district court appearances.

Drug Task Force members said they saw Louis Stellato throw something into his wood stove as they approached the house to execute a search warrant Wednesday. Task force members retrieved what they said was a plastic bag containing 154 packets of heroin from the wood stove and said they found another 18 packets of heroin in the house, along with 1.5 ounces of marijuana, an AK-47 and several rifles.

Task force members said they found also $3,562 in cash in the house and another $2,637 on Joseph Stellato. The task force also seized two vehicles believed to have been used in drug trafficking.

The Stellatos were placed in Pike County Jail in lieu of $35,000 bail.